{"product_id":"boomer1-9781250214775","title":"Boomer1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Torday is a singular American writer with a big heart and a real love for the world. He has the rare gift for writing dynamic action scenes while being genuinely funny.\" --George Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his thirties with significant debt and no steady prospects. His girlfriend Cassie--a punk bassist in an all-female band, who fled her Midwestern childhood for a new identity--finds work at a \"new media\" company. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesperate and humiliated, Mark begins to post a series of online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market. But as his videos go viral, and while Cassie starts to build her career, Mark loses control of what he began--with consequences that ensnare them in a matter of national security. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold through the perspectives of Mark, Cassie, and Mark's mother, Julia, a child of the '60s whose life is more conventional than she ever imagined, \u003ci\u003eBoomer1 \u003c\/i\u003eis timely, suspenseful, and in every line alert to the siren song of endless opportunity that beckons and beguiles all of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDANIEL TORDAY is a two-time National Jewish Book Award recipient and winner of the 2017 Sami Rohr Choice Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Last Flight of Poxl West.\u003c\/i\u003e Torday's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, NPR, The Paris Review Daily, Esquire, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTin House, \u003c\/i\u003eand has been honored in both the \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e series. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. His other books include \u003ci\u003eThe Sensualist: A Novella\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Flight of Poxl West\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515003277586,"sku":"9781250214775","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0bb12dbd-17cf-43de-ae92-76e891e76d51.jpg?v=1730996634","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/boomer1-9781250214775","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}